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Brian talks about his cool new purchase for recording live podcasts called the, Zoom H1n.
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Zoom H1n for podcasting.
Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.
Today we are reviewing the H1n, the Zoom H1n, and this is i don’t know if you can tell it’s a small little thing very simple digital recorder not simple it does a whole heck of a lot but it is deceptively simple in presentation.
There’s not a whole lot to it it takes two double a batteries in the back it’s got a little spot that you can screw in a tripod so you can have it i actually have a small small little tripod bought separately that i could just screw this right in is the first time i’m doing this so i’m assuming i could screw it right in, I can there it is.
So I could set it down I bought this for podcasting and it’s one of those situations where it doesn’t take a whole lot to do podcasts especially live podcasts.
If you’re doing them at a distance zoom works perfectly well for an audio podcast or a video podcast but especially for audio. If you’ve got a strong enough connection it doesn’t take much i have also done interviews over the phone where there’s apps that allow you to record basically it’s a third party that’s recording the conversation that you you kind of have a three way call that’s the best ones i’ve been able to use so far at least on an iphone.
But when it comes to live conversations i was looking for something that i can record a conversation with multiple people in the room. Because i have these little lav mics like the one I’m using right now and i’ll have two of them on a splitter connected to my iphone.
And I’ve gotten really good at podcast quality off of those when you start splitting it more than two ways it can get a little iffy and it’s one of those things where I just didn’t want to go through the hassle of that in person.
I just wanted to be able to have something that I could sit down and record and this thing’s got microphones going in two different directions you can see that there and so it really gets ambient sound. It also allows you to adjust between zero and 10, they missed 11 for some reason but zero and 10 you can adjust the sensitivity of the mics to where you can really pick up a lot.
I mean I’ve got it somewhere between five and six and it does perfectly well you do it any more than that and you can hear yourself breathing and everything else.
It’s like I don’t need it that direct but if I have a further away from me I’d probably turn it up a little bit if i had a couple people in the room I might turn up a little bit and just send it away from us and make sure that it’s picking us up.
It’s got a place that you can listen in on it’s got a place that you can plug in another microphone and so you can get a whole lot out of this and just doing some minor recording off but i can’t believe how wonderful it sounds really really good.
There’s a whole lot of technical stuff about i don’t even understand but if you’re looking for something if you don’t need something that’s super techie but just has a very simple idea behind it.
You’ll want to get an sd card i bought this in a pack somebody had a little kit that included a 32 g i believe is sd card and that’s how you keep memory on it so you want an sd card. Was a bunch of memory on it so you can record as much as you want and stuff like 32 g’s quite a bit when it comes to just recording mp3 which is what i’m doing with this so so far so good.
If I end up having bad news about this thing later on I’ll let you know but you can see online reviews are very high for this thing it’s an amazing little piece of technology.
And if you’re looking to do podcasts and you’re looking to do them in person and you want something even more simple than your iphone in terms of having a whole lot of capability but also being able to do a lot this is a great little great little buy so I got a kit with this on its own it’s under 100 bucks currently if you buy it in the kit it has a whole lot more stuff I’m going to post this review on Amazon.com if they’ll accept it.
I’m Brian Pombo on the writer of, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.
You can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com or buy it on Amazon.com. Or anywhere else so i’ll be back here tomorrow in the meantime you get out there and let the magic happen.